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Beginning 𓃩
Sorceress of the Witch World by Andre Norton, cover by Jeffrey Catherine Jones (1970)
Jack Gaughan (1930-1985), ''Warlock of the Witch World'' by Andre Norton, 1967
The “Illustrated Fantasy Book Guide” is a magazine-format book (or mook) released in 1989 by the publisher of ファミコン必勝本 “Famicon Winning Book”, an NES gaming magazine. The mook lists 37 works of fantasy originally written in English except for “Ficciones” by Borges. The editors of “Famicon Winning Book” were fond of the Wizardry port to the NES, which is my explanation for their interest in this stuff. In any case, they created the best Appendix N so to speak of fantasy translated into Japanese that I have yet found. The Japanese titles are provided below to aid the online searches of would-be buyers.
Images/Text courtesy of Japanese Tabletop RPG
I wish I could find a complete set of scans for this book!
Full list of books featured under the cut.
ENERGY VAMPIRISM
Your emotions are, first and foremost, energy. And quite valuable. But for now, forget the stories about energy vampires feeding on your envy, hatred, and so on. You can feed on anything. Especially the life force that people don't even suspect they have.
Feeling tired? Become a vampire! If only it were that simple... get ready to sacrifice your emotions, because when you take someone else's energy to replenish your own, you can temporarily disconnect, stop feeling like yourself. And it takes a lot of effort to take someone's energy. It turns out to be a vicious circle. You spend energy to take it - in order to replenish it.
But sometimes life force is stolen for rituals, not for the person themselves. But this is the same laborious process, and here the work is more with spirits than practice associated with living people.